Nov. 8: Asheron's Call 2 Preview at GameOver

The preview of Asheron's Call 2 posted yesterday at GameOver describes some of the happenings in Turbine's recent end of beta event. Here's a snippet:

The current events that I personally witnessed involved seeking out various boss characters, or what the developers called 'tryants', which come in the form of dragons and giant lizards. While these dragons still dwarf even the largest of the players who went up against them, they are but a sign of things to come. Turbine has promised there will be even bigger creatures coming to menace the land in subsequent episodes. I don't know about that, but I was already quaking in my boots coming across the first one (and I had invulnerability too). Initially, the tryants just happened to be around the most ravaged areas but then, as the beta event accelerated, they began moving in on different cities and the monsters simply spread everywhere. And what you experienced on each world was different because by the very end of the beta, real admin characters were driving the world around: spawning monsters, ensuring kingdom versus kingdom conflicts were balanced (or at the very least, fun), so on and so forth.

Asheron's Call 2 Fallen Kings is slated for release in North America on a couple of weeks. It's thought that European servers will open before the end of the year, although a firm date is not confirmed as far as we can recall. - Jonric